Error analysis and compensation research of scale factor for MEMS gyroscope

In dynamic condition, scale factor has been one of the main errors for MEMS (micro electromechanical system) gyroscopes. This paper, based on one kind of gyroscope in the airborne optoelectronic pod, studies the variation law of the scale factor and its compensation under different environment temperature and operating speed, and then puts forward to the method of combination of ambient temperature and actual angular velocity when compensating the MEMS gyroscope’s scale factor error. Test result demonstrates that the scale factor error can be effectively suppressed, and compared with compensation method only based on temperature or angular velocity separately, this new method is easy practical and presents better performance.